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I'm excited to share with you all my latest book purchase.

French General

TREASURED NOTIONS

Inspiration and Craft Projects Using Vintage

Beads, Buttons, Ribbons and Trim from

TINSEL TRADING COMPANY

by Kaari Meng

You can click here to purchase from Amazon.

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When we were in NYC last week, this book was available for preorder at

Tinsel Trading.

I was dying!

I didn't want to wait!

I wanted the one and only copy the store had on the counter. When I asked one of the employees when the book was due to come out, she replied "any minute now!". I had visions of the UPS truck pulling up to the store just minutes after we left, and me missing out.

EDITED TO ADD:

Boy, I'm a bit embarrassed! That was not just any employee I talked to about this fabulous book, but I believe it was the owner of Tinsel Trading herself, Marcia Ceppos. I'm also honored and flattered that Marcia left a nice comment on this post. I'm surprised she happened to find my teeny tiny blog in all of blogland. Had to be through a Google search of the book, I'm sure!

However, you found me, Marcia, thanks so much for taking time to leave a comment. I certainly hope I can get back up to NYC real soon and spend more time and money! :o) in your amazing store.

It's probably a good thing, though, I couldn't purchase the book that day. I most likely would have broke the bank buying supplies for all the amazing projects in the book.

The pages below are examples of "Inspiration Boards".

I finally got around to ordering the book Thursday from Amazon, and much to my utter delight, the book arrived yesterday. It is a beautiful piece of artwork . . . really. An absolute must have.

I found this information below to be a little weird and creepy . . .

Below is just a snippet of some of the great project and inspiration photos from the book.

Watch the video below for the amazing story of Tinsel Trading.

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